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4 years agoI either got “that’s just the way it is” or outright racism. No concept of rescource extraction or colonialism, of how different parts of the world had different levels of relative development at different times, almost entirely due to material forces like raw materials and availability of trade.
That’s why for all the well deserved clowning it gets, I think there’s some value in Guns Germs and Steel in terms of being a very lib friendly introduction to the idea that geopolitics (and history overall but let’s not scare them too much) stems from material conditions rather than some weird spooks about different nations having personalities and shit.
That’s interesting. I had a friend who watched KLK and she said that she had to stop because the women (and teens I guess?) were super over sexualized in a way that made her uncomfortable.